Tag Archives: Microsoft

In 2012, Microsoft bought cloud-storage vendor StorSimple and until this month there’s been little news about what Microsoft has been doing with StorSimple. StoreSimple is a cloud-integrated storage (CiS) product that allows users to store heavily used data on-premises/locally and … Continue reading →

Microsoft announced recently the availability of Oracle Software on Windows Azure, following the last year’s parthership between the two companies. The new additions include Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server and Java wich are now generally available with license-included virtual machine … Continue reading →

Microsoft announced on Tuesday it will be joining the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and will be contributing hardware specifications, design collateral (CAD and Gerber files), and system management source code for Microsoft’s cloud server designs. These specifications apply to … Continue reading →

Microsoft announced at the SC10 supercomputing trade show in New Orleans that it has a version of the BLAST running on its Azure platform. BLAST is essentially a search engine for scanning through large databases of chemical compounds to find … Continue reading →

The new version of Windows HPC Server supports using Windows 7 as a compute node in the HPC cluster. The workstations running Windows 7 can be included in the cluster thanks to the new feature called Desktop Compute Cloud (DCC). … Continue reading →

Researchers at Harvard and Microsoft have authored a paper that seeks to prove that a small, power-efficient core like the Intel Atom chip can be better suited for search. The paper compares the performance, reliability, and cost of ownership of … Continue reading →

On 14th of July, during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft officially announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs. Continue reading →